What was the role of an artist in colonial Venezuela?

Watch as curator Jorge Rivas guides us through the diverse works of artist Juan Pedro López. Rivas discusses the role of the artist in 18th Century Venezuela illustrating how differently an artist was perceived then than now.

The core of colonial art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection consists of painting, furnishings and religious objects created in Venezuela during the Hispanic and Republican periods, from the early seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. More